The church is twenty miles away from Jefferson. It contains the traditional pews and pulpit, but when Christmas invades it at night it is also described as having a "thick, cavelike gloom," which is increased by "two oil lamps" (322). The "churchyard" consists of "a pallid crescent of trampled and beaten earth, shaped and enclosed by undergrowth and trees," and nearby is at least one cabin, to which Roz is carried after Christmas knocks him out (325).